Month: August 2010

Keeping Glenn Beck Segregated from History

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes – released this month in paperback – responded to Glenn Beck’s “March on Washington” last weekend. This op-ed originally appeared in the Huffington… READ MORE

Boston Globe on Celebrity Genealogy

A review of Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. appeared in The Boston Globe. The central lesson of genealogy is both… READ MORE

NYTimes: NYU Leading in Online “Peer” Review

The New York Times discusses the possibility of a shift from peer-reviewed journals to online crowd-sourced reviews in the context of several recent projects, including MediaCommons, which has been championed… READ MORE